This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

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Vol. 79, No. 233 

Thursday, December 4, 2014 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

7 CFR Parts 318 and 319 

[Docket No. APHIS–2010–0082] 

RIN 0579–AD71 

Establishing a Performance Standard 

for Authorizing the Importation and 

Interstate Movement of Fruits and 

Vegetables 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: We are reopening the 

comment period for our proposed rule 

that would amend our regulations 

governing the importation and interstate 

movement of fruits and vegetables by 

broadening our existing performance 

standard to provide for approval of all 

new fruits and vegetables for 

importation or interstate movement into 

or within the United States using a 

notice-based process. This action will 

allow interested persons additional time 

to prepare and submit comments. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

proposed rule published on September 

9, 2014 (79 FR 53346–53352) is 

reopened. We will consider all 

comments that we receive on or before 

January 9, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docket

Detail;D=APHIS-2010-0082. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2010–0082, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Supporting documents and any 

comments we receive on this docket 

may be viewed at http://www.

regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=

APHIS-2010-0082 or in our reading 

room, which is located in Room 1141 of 

the USDA South Building, 14th Street 

and Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC. Normal reading room 

hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except holidays. To be 

sure someone is there to help you, 

please call (202) 799–7039 before 

coming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Nicole L. Russo, Assistant Director, 

Regulatory Coordination and 

Compliance, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River 

Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737– 

1231; (301) 851–2159. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

September 9, 2014, we published in the 

Federal Register (79 FR 53346–53352) a 

proposal to amend our regulations 

governing the importations of fruits and 

vegetables by broadening our existing 

performance standard to provide for 

approval of all new fruits and vegetables 

for importation into the United States 

using a notice-based process. We also 

proposed to remove the region- or 

commodity-specific phytosanitary 

requirements currently found in these 

regulations. Likewise, we proposed an 

equivalent revision of the performance 

standard in our regulations governing 

the interstate movement of fruits and 

vegetables from Hawaii and the U.S. 

territories (Guam, Northern Mariana 

Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin 

Islands) and the removal of commodityspecific phytosanitary requirements 

from those regulations. This proposal 

would allow for the approval of requests 

to authorize the importation or 

interstate movement of new fruits and 

vegetables in a manner that enables a 

more flexible and responsive regulatory 

approach to evolving pest situations in 

both the United States and exporting 

countries. It would not however, alter 

the science-based process in which the 

risk associated with importation or 

interstate movement of a given fruit or 

vegetable is evaluated or the manner in 

which risks associated with the 

importation or interstate movement of a 

fruit or vegetable are mitigated. 

Comments on the proposed rule were 

required to be received on or before 

November 10, 2014. We are reopening 

the comment period on Docket No. 

APHIS–2010–0082 for an additional 60 

days. We will also accept all comments 

received between November 11, 2014 

(the day after the close of the original 

comment period) and the date of this 

notice. This action will allow interested 

persons additional time to prepare and 

submit comments. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 450, 7701–7772, and 

7781–7786; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 7 CFR 

2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 1st day of 

December 2014. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28488 Filed 12–3–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

17 CFR Parts 1, 15, 17, 19, 32, 37, 38, 

140, and 150 

RIN 3038–AD99; 3038–AD82 

Position Limits for Derivatives and 

Aggregation of Positions 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; 

reopening of comment periods. 

SUMMARY: On December 12, 2013, the 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’) published 

in the Federal Register a notice of 

proposed rulemaking (the ‘‘Position 

Limits Proposal’’) to establish 

speculative position limits for 28 

exempt and agricultural commodity 

futures and options contracts and the 

physical commodity swaps that are 

economically equivalent to such 

contracts. On November 15, 2013, the 

Commission published in the Federal 

Register a notice of proposed 

rulemaking (the ‘‘Aggregation 

Proposal’’) to amend existing 

regulations setting out the Commission’s 

policy for aggregation under its position 

limits regime. The Commission’s 

Agricultural Advisory Committee has 

scheduled a public meeting to be held 

on December 9, 2014, which will 

consider, among other matters, 

deliverable supply and exemptions for 

bona fide hedging positions. To provide 

commenters with a sufficient period of 

time to respond to questions raised and 

points made at the Agricultural 

Advisory Committee meeting, the 

Commission is reopening the comment 

periods for an additional 45 days. 

Comments should be limited to the 

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